“A World without War” in our Global Future with Sundeep Waslekar

A New Global Social Contract

Sundeep is a leading thinker for the future, what may or will happen, and how to prepare. He is the author of the much-read book “A World Without War”. Chairman of the Strategic Foresight Group, an India-based think tank that has worked with or on 65 countries since its founding in 2002, he is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflicts in Oxford.

He says more and more our problems are civilizational, but our responses are national. This results in a fundamental malfunctioning of the international system. We run risks in even the short term from nuclear weapons and artificial intelligence that is badly used. Sundeep works with organizations – national and global – to help find workable solutions. He tells us more in his podcast below.

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Setting the scene

How did you start?

The Strategic Foresight Group and A World Without War

Civilizational or national? A dangerous period

Danger of convergence between nuclear and artificial intelligence arms races

European Parliament and Stefan Löfven

Action Plan Proposed. Early Precedents

Four factors in our new 21st century age

A composite solution to address these four problems.

Nationalism devouring sense of humanity. Historical precedents.

Resilience in human society

Benefits, not sacrifices: I Am because We Are

Brainwashed on our screens

Making it personal

We may sleepwalk into a war

Can storytelling make a difference?

Global framework: mitigation of risks, maximization of benefits

Need to understand the benefits

AI if properly harnessed can prevent pandemics

When do children start to think “us vs them”?

Final thoughts from Sundeep: you can create a world without war